Re: [ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

2013-05-07 Thread Mehdi Rashidi
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 12:59:30PM +0100, Mehdi Rashidi wrote: > > I am trying to analyze the OVS as an option for porting it to our > devices. > > Reading the porting document has risen some question for me. > > Q: Say

[ovs-discuss] dpif as a Hardware Abstraction Layer?

2013-05-03 Thread Mehdi Rashidi
Is this right if I say dpif gives an abstracted underlying datapath (hardware) for ofproto? Mehdi ___ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

2013-05-02 Thread Mehdi Rashidi
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Mehdi Rashidi wrote: > I read the document couple of times but I found it quit vague maybe > because of lack of knowledge. > My confusion is that whether all those components ( > ​​ > ofproto-dpif, dpif, dpif provider) are needed all together if I

Re: [ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

2013-05-02 Thread Mehdi Rashidi
e the document and you emphasized in your answer if I don't want to use userspace switch I have two choices: write "ofproto provider" or "dpif provider" so does it mean that "ofproto" either uses "ofproto provider" or "dpif provider"? Thanks

[ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

2013-05-02 Thread Mehdi Rashidi
Hello everybody, I am totally new to the OVS and OpenFlow and trying to understand them deeply as I am working on a project which aims to make non-compliant OpenFlow devices compatible with OpenFlow. i.e. to be controlled by OpenFlow controller. I am trying to analyze the OVS as an option for por